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Description: Truly ancient (around half a millennium) icon shows the highest artistic skill of the author. The most miniature details of painting, elements of costumes, etc. are worked out, which is not usual for such large icon as this one. Here we can see the magnificent quality of miniature painting in a monumental dimension. Talent and hard work of the author who has created this image does not lend itself to comprehension. At the same time, this icon is very interesting to the researcher and the antique dealer due to its rarity. The rarity of this icon is not the plot itself of the Crucifix. The rarity of this icon is that it is filled with such detailed details and elements inside the composition, which with a high degree of probability, we can assume that this is a completely unique work that has no analogues. From the religious Orthodox point of view, this monument so-called. "theology in colors" because here we can see the whole dramaturgy of the apotheosis of the New Testament with its main moment - the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. As with visible and unvisible participants - angels. This icon clearly demonstrates its faithful teaching purpose.

"What the word of the narrative offers for the hearing, then the silent painting shows through the images" - noted by St. Basil the Great.

However, the Fathers of the Great Cathedral are leaving to the artists to embody the design in the material etc, giving the artist the freedom of choice.

This icon is the bright representative of the Kostroma icon painting school. This school stands out from the other schools with its non-standard approach, the craving for not typical or over-detailed interpretations, perfection in details, elegant clothes of the corresponding epoch, the work of gold niello in grisal technique, a deep volumetric painting of faces with some expression etc.

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